Analysing

This weeks blog entry covers the topic of my and the class’s data analysis. For the past week, I have been working on my data analysis toolbox. I have been working on several graphical displays and I have come up with a few results. Each region has different trends and different results. Region 1, which includes Caddo, Bossier, Webster, Claiborne, DeSoto, Bienville, Jackson, Red River, Natchitoches, Grant, Sabine, Vernon, and Winn, has a downward trend then upward trend after 2002. Their average was not affected negatively by a named storm. For this, I believe the northern parishes were not affected by the hurricane in the educational sense. Region 2, which contains Union, Morehouse, East Carroll, West Carroll, Ouachita, Madison, Richland, Caldwell, Franklin, Tensas, LaSalle, Catahoula, and Concordia, has an overall downward trend. This region peaked in 2004 and decreased after that year. Region 3 stayed around the same average with little variability. Region 3, Beauregard, Allen, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, and Cameron has the highest averages than any of the other regions.

Rapides, Avoyelles, Evageline, St. Landry, Pointe Coupee, West Feliciana, Acadia, Lafayette, St. Martin, Iberville, Vermilion, Iberia, and St. Mary are in Region 4. Region 4 peaked in 2002 and decreased in 2003 and continues to increase then on. Region 5, East Feliciana, East Baton Rouge, St. Helena, Livingston, Tangipahoa, Washington, and St. Tammany, started to increase until 2004 and decreased in 2006 and 2007. Ascention, Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Licoln, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, and Terrebonne is in the last region, Region 6. It started to increase in 2002 and continued the trend until 2007.

The results are surprising because the southern parishes increase after the storm and the central and northern states are decreasing after the storm. People moving from the southern parishes to the northern one could lower their scores.